Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic... See more

It's actually kind of interesting how little collaborative work is done on the Internet. I mean, we have Wikipedia—that's one of the great ones. There's obviously GitHub... There's Google Docs. You might say, 'Well that is a lot of collaborative work,' and I agree, but I think there's so much more that can be done. Why aren't there more things like... See more